Fran�ois, Duque de La Rochefoucauld

France
15 Sep 1613 // 17 Mar 1680
Writer, Moralist

The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.

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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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